ISSD’s Oromia Unit facilitated a training of 32 professionals to support seed producer cooperatives in their management practices. Continue reading

ISSD’s Oromia East Unit organised a workshop with key stakeholders to address pressing supply and marketing issues in Hararghe zones. Continue reading

Download and read about the latest activities and achievements of ISSD Ethiopia over the previous months; as well as gain insights into current focus areas. Continue reading

The Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EAIR) and Regional Agricultural Research Institutes (RARIs) are key seed sector stakeholders. These institutes have a lead role in variety development, variety maintenance and quality EGS production. To support and strengthen their efforts ISSD… Continue reading

Ensuring seed supply matches demand is a complex national process. Various institutional bottlenecks continue to result in farmers not getting seed of the varieties they want, while unused seed sits as carryover, degrading and potentially becoming unusable. ISSD and partners… Continue reading

Across 2018, regional and national seed sector stakeholders have engaged intensively, shaping an action agenda to transform the seed sector. Continue reading

Nodal farmers’ role and motivations to exchange seed in their locality formed the topic of recent research. ISSD Tigray Unit facilitated a Wageningen University (Netherlands) researcher to conduct a seed social network analysis, concluding that while nodal farmer self-interest plays… Continue reading

ISSD Ethiopia provides evidence for the sustainability of local seed business (LSB) in Ethiopia by revisiting 33 LSBs graduated from programme support in 2015. The study set out to test two assumptions of the programme. The first is that the… Continue reading

BENEFIT-ISSD Oromia East project unit organized and conducted a one day training of trainers (TOT) on post-harvest quality seed management for woreda experts and DAs at Ras Hotel, Harar city. Continue reading